In Our Hands

Don’t be dazzled by this extraordinary show. The idea that the UN’s ‘COP 15’ Climate Summit – where governments will attempt to negotiate a climate change treaty to see us through the next few decades – is our ‘last chance’ is a very dangerous one indeed.

It’s dangerous for several reasons. For a start, it’s not true. If it were, then quite frankly we’d all be screwed, because there’s no way that any deal that comes out of Copenhagen will effectively curb global warming.

* Declaration of interest: Its author, Jess Worth, has been instrumental in getting my colleague Marc Roberts’ cartoon “Gort and Klaatu’s International Climate Slamdown” into the pages of New Internationalist. But I’m not log-rolling, honest…